RIP Wolfgang Draeger

 

Wolfgang Draeger: voice actor from “TKKG” died

 

24 Hours Worlds

William

January 25, 2023

 

A lot of people grew up with Wolfgang Draeger’s voice: with Bibo on children’s television, with the inspectors in European radio plays and all the Hollywood stars that the man from Hamburg spoke. He turned 95.

Millions of people knew his voice, but hardly anyone knew his face: The radio play star and dubbing speaker Wolfgang Draeger is dead. The Hamburger was 95 years old. This was announced by his children Sascha Draeger and Kerstin Draeger on Instagram on Tuesday evening. The radio play label Europa confirmed Draeger’s death on Wednesday to the German Press Agency.

Wolfgang Draeger has died

He was the German dubbing voice of US actor Woody Allen. The star’s special way of speaking was never a problem for him, Draeger said in a dpa interview in 2015. “Because part of me is that way. I’m a stutterer and I have a penchant for psychopaths and lunatics. If I had to play the roles instead of just speaking, I would do them the same way. James Cagney, who I also voiced, was a lot harder. It took a lot of acting and effort to make that boiler. But Woody Allen, that’s pretty much me in a lot of ways.” He also voiced other stars, such as Dudley Moore, and once Roman Polanski.

On the ARD children’s television “Sesame Street”, Draeger lent his voice to the big yellow bird Bibo. But the man from Hamburg is also very well-known from radio plays for children and young people on the Europa label. His most prominent role may have been Commissioner Glockner from the “TKKG” series. In the radio play series “The three ???” Draeger succeeded Horst Frank as Commissioner Reynolds in the late 1980s.

Actor and voice actor

“With Wolfgang Draeger, a really great, wonderful actor and friend has left us,” said Europe boss Heikedine Körting. “He leaves us all an incredible number of great memories – both in film and on television, dubbing and in radio plays. Last year we made great recordings together in the studio for “The Three ???”. Farewell, dear Wolfgang Draeger!”

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As an actor, Draeger appeared in the ZDF series “The Legacy of the Guldenburgs”. Again as commissioner. “With his gentlemanly looks and his distinctive voice, he was an excellent fit for roles of respected people,” says non-fiction author Björn Akstinat. The cartoon character Inspector Gadget was also part of the repertoire.

As Draeger’s children wrote on Instagram, their father died on Monday. “Now we were up in your beloved mountains for your 95th birthday… and now you just wanted to get even higher,” says Kerstin Draeger.

DRAEGER, Wolfgang (Wolfgang Herbert Kurt Draeger)

Born: 1/9/1928, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Died: 1/23/2023, Hamburg, Hambuerg, Germany

 

Wolfgang Draeger’s westerns – voice actor:

Frisco Kid – 1933 [German voice of James Cagney1996]

Vigilantes are Coming – 1936 [German voice of John O’Brien 1990s]

Shepard of the Hills – 1941 [German voice of Tom Fadden 1990s]

Gun Belt – 1953 [German voice of Tab Hunter 1990s]

Wichita – 1955 [German voice of Peter Graves 1990s]

The Brave One – 1956 [German voice of Carlos Fernández 1990s]

Man from Del Rio – 1956 [German voice of Carl Thayler 1990s]

Thunder Over Arizona – 1956 [German voice of John Clapton 1990s]

Tomahawk Trail – 1956 [German voice of Harry Dean Stanton 1990s]

Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) – 1957-1962 [German voice of Norman Leavitt]

Bravados – 1958 [German voice of Jason Wingreen]

Buchanan Rides Alone – 1958 [German voice of L.Q. Jones]

Cowboy – 1958 [German voice of Don Reardon]

Ride a Crooked Trail – 1958 [German voice of Frank Chase]

Yancy Derringer (TV) – 1958-1959 [German voice of Gene Collins, James Fox, Stuart Randall]

Frontier Rangers – 1959 [German voice of Rayford Barnes]

Bonanza (TV) – 1959-1973 [German voice of George Brenlin, Robert Colbert, Lou Frizzell, Paul

     Lukather, Art Metrano, Arnold Stang

Cattle King – 1963 [German voice of Robert Ivers]

Four for Texas – 1963 [German voice of Dave Willock]

Bullets Don’t Count – 1964 [German voice of Angel Aranda]

The Last Gun – 1964 [German voice of Ugo Fangareggi]

Oklahoma John – 1964 [German voice of Georg Herzig]

Cat Ballou – 1965 [German voice of Erik Sorenson]

Fistful of Dollars – 1965 [German voice of Fernando Sánchez Polack]

The Tramplers – 1965 [German voice of Franco Balducci]

The Big Valley (TV) – 1965-1969 [German voice of Christopher Cary, Don Knight, Dennis

      Safren

My Name is Pecos – 1966 [German voice of Gino Barbacane]

The Dirty Outlaws - 1967[German voice of Giuseppe Castellano]

Killer Caliber .32 [German voice of Alberto Dell’Acqua]

Pecos Cleans Up – 1967 [German voice of Piero Vida]

Professionals for a Massacre – 1967 [German voice of Milo Quesada]

The Ruthless Four – 1967 [German voice of Klaus Kinski]

7 Pistols for a Massacre – 1967 [German voice of Eduardo Fajardo]

The High Chaparral (TV) – 1967-1971 [German voice of James Gammon]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – 1968 [German voice of Jim turner]

And God Said to Cain – 1970 [German voice of Antonio Cantafora]

Catlow – 1971 [German voice of Angel del Pozo]

The Grissom Gang – 1971 [German voice of Scott Wilson]

Halleluja für Camposanto – 1971 German voice of Gildo Di Marco]

Halleluja für Spirito Santo – 1971 [German voice of Ettore Arena, Federico Boido]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 1971 [German voice of Rene Auberjonois]

A Time for Dying – 1971 [German voice of Audie Murphy]

Vengeance Trail – 1971 [German voice of ?]

Yuma – 1971 [German voice of Robert Phillips]

Alias Smith & Jones (TV) – 1971-1973 [German voice of Billy ‘Green’ Bush, Dennis Fimple,

     L.Q. Jones, Joaquín Martínez

Ben and Charlie – 1972 [German voice of Vittorio Congia]

The Culpepper Cattle Co. – 1972 [German voice of Matt Clark]

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean – 1972 [German voice of Matt Clark, Jack Colvin]

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid – 1972 [German voice of Matt Clark]

Junior Bonner – 1972 [German voice of Bill McKinney]

Nigger Charley – 1972 [German voice of D'Urville Martin]

Bad Kids of the West – 1973 [German voice of Gaetano Scala]

Burning Daylight (TV) – 1975 [German voice of ?]

The Last Day – 1975 [German voice of Richard Jaeckel]

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez – 1982 [German voice of Michael McGuire]

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV) 1993-2001 [German voice of Clu Gulager, Paul Williams